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MIRROR TURN MINDS OFF GERMANY r SOUTH BEND 1 WEEKLY^ FRIDAY, AUGUST Bth, 1941 BELIEVE It Or ELSE! #2? Silas eWitherspoon MEAT O' THE COCONUT HEADLINE WRITERS ARE AMERICA'S BEST LIARS AND HEADLINE READERS AMERICA'S BEST FOOLS If you see it in the headlines, maybe it is so, but probably it isn’t. Better read the story underneath. As often as not, the headline writer doesn’t get the proper gist of it, the correct angle, in his search for a few words to fit the space, and scream the story in a nut-shell. Secretary of War Stimson’s “apology” to Senator Burton “Kraut” Wheeler of Munich (er Montana) , as swayed in the “banners” was no apology at all. It was a confirmation and enlargement. A hint has been lent by F. B. I. that further indulgence in such Wheeler methods must cease. STIMSON'S "APOLOGY" TO "KRAUT" WHEELER BELIED IN PRESS "BANNERS" AND PRO-NAZIS ARE GLEEFUL * * * * Secret a r y Stims o n merely acknowlegedwleg- ed Wheeler’s word that he did not Siimself, mail his speech direct to the soldiers urging them to combat extension of their time of service as draftees. Stimson said the first time, there were at least three: in his “apology” he regrets the error, — says there was at least three thousand. Wheeler says the list to whom millions of his cards were mailed, was obtained from a magazine, and the cards went to their home addresses. If they got into the army they were forwarded from home. Who did the mailing? Whether from his office, or by some propaganda agency: the Bund, America First — for the Axis, •— Christian Front, or Parents of Draftees, he didn’t explain. FRANKING PRIVILEGE IS "PERSONAL-OFFICIAL" AND CANNOT BE LOANED TO"UNOFFIGIAL"AGENCY * * * * T h e Wheeler senate speech, postcardedin the government printing office (labeled “not at government expense”), was mailed to millions under the senator’s frank; no postage required. The franking privilege is vested in senators, REICH'S COUNIER-ATTRACTIONS TO AID PICKPOCKETRY ANYTHING to take the American mind, and the British mind, off Germany. Her latest sight-detractors are Russia and Japan; trial-balloons to beguile and flim-flam the supposed foolish. The Nazis are nothing if not astute; at least they think so. In their war strategy they play sharp and subtle. In their battle of nerves they are cute as a bedbug. Herr Paul Goebbels, mind-manipulator for der fuehrer, knows Putnam T. Barnum like a book. Barnum's autobiography is a Nazi propaganda textbook. Germany believes him explicity that the "American people like to be humbugged," and Herr Goebbels reasons that if they like it, they are most certain to insist upon it. That, to him, is the American way. Therefore Germany invades Russia and Germany inspires Japan to go rambunctuous in the far east. She swallowed the Balkans to open the way; show her "great" power, convince the Soviet that she had best not resist, and prove to the Nippos that to get onto the Axis bandwagon was her only hope; sign up with the winner: It would also be a warning to the United States if not molasses for favor. Goebbels knows how the House of Morgan has propagandized America to hate Communism; how with Karl Marx for its economic Bible, to be practiced in reverse ratio, it became, until Roosevelt, virtual economic dictator of America through its high financial and big business intrigues. Marx exposing capitalistic possibilities of exploitation, gave Morgan his clue—and he put American Lemon Coming THE LEGIONS are coming; the American Legion, potentially, the largest convention to be held in South Bend in many years. Members of the Indiana American Legion, anxious to be of service to their country in the present national emergency, as they were in the first world war, will invade South Bend, August 16 to 19, for its 23rd annual legion convention. World War veterans of the Hoosier Legion now have an average age of 48 years; arc combing their hair due east and west to hide the bald spots and a middle-age bulge precludes their wearing of uniforms of world war days. John A. Watkins, of Bloomfield, state commander, will report to the South Bend convention that the state legion enrollment for 1941 is well above the four-year average. The national legion enrollment has established (On Page Two) (On Page Three) (On Page Four) SOUTH BEND PUBLIC L i 304 3 .MAIN ST. . C I TY . Russia, Japan, the Balkans, As Trial-Balloons In Nazi Strategy

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MIRROR TURN MINDS OFF GERMANY r SOUTH BEND 1 WEEKLY^ FRIDAY, AUGUST Bth, 1941 BELIEVE It Or ELSE! #2? Silas eWitherspoon MEAT O' THE COCONUT HEADLINE WRITERS ARE AMERICA'S BEST LIARS AND HEADLINE READERS AMERICA'S BEST FOOLS If you see it in the headlines, maybe it is so, but probably it isn’t. Better read the story underneath. As often as not, the headline writer doesn’t get the proper gist of it, the correct angle, in his search for a few words to fit the space, and scream the story in a nut-shell. Secretary of War Stimson’s “apology” to Senator Burton “Kraut” Wheeler of Munich (er Montana) , as swayed in the “banners” was no apology at all. It was a confirmation and enlargement. A hint has been lent by F. B. I. that further indulgence in such Wheeler methods must cease. STIMSON'S "APOLOGY" TO "KRAUT" WHEELER BELIED IN PRESS "BANNERS" AND PRO-NAZIS ARE GLEEFUL * * * * Secret a r y Stims o n merely acknowlegedwleg- ed Wheeler’s word that he did not Siimself, mail his speech direct to the soldiers urging them to combat extension of their time of service as draftees. Stimson said the first time, there were at least three: in his “apology” he regrets the error, — says there was at least three thousand. Wheeler says the list to whom millions of his cards were mailed, was obtained from a magazine, and the cards went to their home addresses. If they got into the army they were forwarded from home. Who did the mailing? Whether from his office, or by some propaganda agency: the Bund, America First — for the Axis, •— Christian Front, or Parents of Draftees, he didn’t explain. FRANKING PRIVILEGE IS "PERSONAL-OFFICIAL" AND CANNOT BE LOANED TO"UNOFFIGIAL"AGENCY * * * * T h e Wheeler senate speech, postcardedin the government printing office (labeled “not at government expense”), was mailed to millions under the senator’s frank; no postage required. The franking privilege is vested in senators, REICH'S COUNIER-ATTRACTIONS TO AID PICKPOCKETRY ANYTHING to take the American mind, and the British mind, off Germany. Her latest sight-detractors are Russia and Japan; trial-balloons to beguile and flim-flam the supposed foolish. The Nazis are nothing if not astute; at least they think so. In their war strategy they play sharp and subtle. In their battle of nerves they are cute as a bedbug. Herr Paul Goebbels, mind-manipulator for der fuehrer, knows Putnam T. Barnum like a book. Barnum's autobiography is a Nazi propaganda textbook. Germany believes him explicity that the "American people like to be humbugged," and Herr Goebbels reasons that if they like it, they are most certain to insist upon it. That, to him, is the American way. Therefore Germany invades Russia and Germany inspires Japan to go rambunctuous in the far east. She swallowed the Balkans to open the way; show her "great" power, convince the Soviet that she had best not resist, and prove to the Nippos that to get onto the Axis bandwagon was her only hope; sign up with the winner: It would also be a warning to the United States if not molasses for favor. Goebbels knows how the House of Morgan has propagandized America to hate Communism; how with Karl Marx for its economic Bible, to be practiced in reverse ratio, it became, until Roosevelt, virtual economic dictator of America through its high financial and big business intrigues. Marx exposing capitalistic possibilities of exploitation, gave Morgan his clue—and he put American Lemon Coming THE LEGIONS are coming; the American Legion, potentially, the largest convention to be held in South Bend in many years. Members of the Indiana American Legion, anxious to be of service to their country in the present national emergency, as they were in the first world war, will invade South Bend, August 16 to 19, for its 23rd annual legion convention. World War veterans of the Hoosier Legion now have an average age of 48 years; arc combing their hair due east and west to hide the bald spots and a middle-age bulge precludes their wearing of uniforms of world war days. John A. Watkins, of Bloomfield, state commander, will report to the South Bend convention that the state legion enrollment for 1941 is well above the four-year average. The national legion enrollment has established (On Page Two) (On Page Three) (On Page Four) SOUTH BEND PUBLIC L i 304 3 .MAIN ST. . C I TY . Russia, Japan, the Balkans, As Trial-Balloons In Nazi Strategy